Louise Brown Book Quotations

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.